Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 11 suspected drug dealers as well as destroyed 2, 317 bags of cannabis weighing 30,992kgs.
This was conveyed by the agency;s spokesman, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, in a statement on Friday.
The statement reads: “The cannabis will also serve as evidence against 11 suspected farmers arrested during an operation inside the cannabis plantation. The suspects arrested in connection with the cannabis cultivation are Kofi Mensah, Godwin Monday, Albert Aniama, Liberty Onyeka and Peter Nelson.
“Others are Harrison Ewoka, Ossai Nelson, Sulaiman Niyi, Dominic Tobechukwu, Mutiu Kolawole and Chucks Oghenekwu. The raid operation codenamed ‘Operation Herb Spring’ was in response to an intelligence received by the Agency on the activities of cannabis cultivators in the forest.
“The exhibits was estimated to worth three hundred and nine million naira (N309million). These exhibits were found in 27 camps used as storage facilities located within a farmland at Orita-Ijebu forest reserve, Ikoyi area of Ikire in Ayedade LGA of Osun State.
“Drug cartels have invaded government forest reserves for the cultivation of cannabis.”
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